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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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139700
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Who is the torturer and who is the tortured?
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139721
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"You don't need the gun," Dean said. "Bring me a bottle of peroxide and some duct tape."
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139700
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Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…
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139731
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She's an obese woman whose clothes don't fit: shirts that ride up too high her belly hanging out her pants suctioned to her strangely pegged legs. Her ballooned cheeks are always chapped pink her lips little slivers peeled back over small beige teeth like…
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139743
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—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.
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139666
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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139676
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Ross, I've been a ghost hunter for almost 10 years now and this is a place I said I WOULD NEVER NEVER EVER go to!
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139622
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"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"
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139611
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But the profligate are blameless now
Those who conflate sex and love the way
dumber animals mistake heat for light
have moved freely back to some primal zone
where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the
surroundings it’s because I wanted t
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139600
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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1396139
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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.
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1396103
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Words are looking ever so strange today
like a hole in space
a wind in a cloud
a face superimposed over a mountain
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139665
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Maybe they considered themselves beyond redemption, or maybe they couldn't sit for that long.
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139655
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If we go back in time
We are living in tents
If we go back in time
We are living in caves
We are fighting over rivers
We are fighting over fields
Near the soft edges of slime
If we go back in time
Nothing would have us
And we had t
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139651
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Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…
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139621
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Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
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139650
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Condensation on the Glass Riding down 22, I'm looking out the window. Time is a whirlwind. Your memory relinquishes itself, yellowed and fraying at the edges. It's raining and cold. I make a smiley face in the condensation …
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139553
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This mother, she buys a one way ticket
whenever she visits her three daughters
who have wandered far from the eyes of
her pearlescent knitting needles and tutti-frutti yarns.
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139582
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He bites and imagines, numbed by want.
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1395107
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“What do you want for Father's Day?” she asks. “Sex,” he says, his mouth curling at the corners, “and a bottle of Shiraz.” …
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13951817
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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139587
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139566
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The four Grannies say, “GO!” and leap from the window. King's pickup is below, and he has lined the bed with his mother's throw pillows. Sundresses fly. Blue plastic diapers billow. They want cigarettes. I light their smokes with King's pearl-handled lighter as…
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139575
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139511
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When people talk about the end moments when one's life flashes before his or her eyes, they often refer to time as slowing down. I can attest to this phenomenon during my final moments, before the collision: the song playing on the radio, the squeal of tires and flash of…
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139534
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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139542
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In the summer of 1963 I went to Philadelphia to study with a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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139500
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Mayumi approached them; her memories of their faces from the texts they received from each other had come alive.
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139500
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When his mother was all dressed up on New Year’s Eve, and his father, even thought they had tickets for the dance, announced to her he wasn’t going to go, Johnny had gone into his room, put on a white shirt, a dark suit, his dress shoes, and a clip-o
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